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Noun

Zip drive ‎(plural Zip drives)

1. (computing) A storage device, similar to a floppy disk drive but using disks with a much larger capacity. (100, 250, or 750 MB, compared to a normal floppy disk capacity of 1.44 MB)

Usage notes

• Zip is a trademark of the Iomega Corporation, and is normally written with an initial capital letter.

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• zip

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